Ride-hailing firm Uber and courier services provider Postmates asked a court to block a California labor law set to go into effect on Wednesday, arguing the bill violates the US Constitution, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-31
... District court previously said. The Financial Times on Monday said Ghosn was no longer under house arrest. Citing an associate of Ghosn, the British newspaper said the ex-executive landed at Beirut’s ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-31
A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a scientist who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies to three years in prison, Reuters reports, citing state media. He Jiankui was convicted of illegally ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-31
... Virginia court, and a subsequent court order. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-31
... People’s Court was quoted as saying on Thursday. The court verdict means that if Jiang commits no further crimes over the next two years, his sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment, according ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-27
... ng of the Court of Final Appeal as well as stopping passers-by In related news, a number of people heeded an online call to stage a protest outside the Revenue Tower in Wan Chai on Monday at noon. Sev ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-24
... e Supreme Court of State of New York in his decision called the city’s cruising cap “arbitrary and capricious,” the report said. New York City passed the rule in August with the aim of reducing traffi ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-24
... . A Saudi court rejected the findings of a UN inquiry by ruling that the killing was not premeditated, but carried out “at the spur of the moment”. Saudi Deputy Public Prosecutor and spokesman Shalaan ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-24
A German court banned Uber ride-hailing services in Germany, arguing the US company lacks a necessary license to offer passenger transport services using rental cars, Reuters reports. The verdict is a ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-20
US home-sharing site Airbnb won its battle to remain exempt from onerous European property regulations as the EU’s top court ruled it was an online platform and not a property agent, Reuters reports. ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-20
... a federal court in Brooklyn. Spokespeople for Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and the attorney general of Malaysia did not immediately respond to requests for comment. – Contact us at englis ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-20
... the High Court found him guilty of accepting HK$19.6 million in bribes from developer Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP), through its then co-chairman Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong, ex-SHKP executive director T ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
A Philippine court on Thursday found top members of a political clan guilty of masterminding a 2009 massacre of 57 people, among them 32 journalists, in the country’s worst single instance of election ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
... dia’s top court over the ruling of the quasi-judicial National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), one of the lawyers representing the Tata Group said. Wednesday's ruling is a setback for the Tata ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-19
The government will have to arrange for by-elections to fill two vacant seats in the Legislative Council after the Court of Final Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that two pro-democracy lawmakers sh ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-18
... District Court was quoted as saying. Samsung executives and employees were, to different degrees, involved in finding out sensitive information about union members to convince them to leave the union ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-18
A Pakistani court sentenced former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia on treason charges stemming from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007, Reuters reports. Musharraf, ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-18
... a Vatican court sentenced a Catholic priest to five years in jail for possessing child pornography while he was based in the United States as a diplomat. On Tuesday, the pope accepted the resignation ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-18
... ering the court room. God’s name becomes inextricably entwined with prayers for justice to be done, so long as it leads to an acquittal of the now fervent devotee. More often than not, the amount of r ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-16
